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| Educational Equality as a Viable Tool for Bridging Economic Inequalities |
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INCESSANT STRIKE BY ACADEMICS
Educationists in our public tertiary institutions have conventionally accepted or welcomed strike action as a means to buttress home their demands. These erroneous and un-called for acts have incessantly disordered and disorganized educational activities.
If it might interest us to know that incessant strike actions contradict the ethics of teaching as a profession. These incessant strike actions are followed up by demonstrations which bring disorderliness in our higher institutions of learning, in which cultists have a golden opportunity to exhibit their show of shame and barbaric acts. This strike action, whose outcome is overwhelming, ranges from total collapse of the educational system to destruction of the few educational facilities but to mention a few, thereby heightening the tension of insecurity in our tertiary institution of learning.
EXCSESSIVE BUREAUCRACY
The bureaucracy encountered in our higher institutions of learning has posed a threat to our educational system. Moral instructors, one-on-one interaction between lecturers and students and others witnessed in private institutions of learning, are however, a thing of the past in the pubic tertiary institution. The excessive bureaucracy has not given the student a sense of belonging, which does not inculcate in them the spirit of entrepreneurship. These unfortunate and half-baked graduates from our public tertiary institutions of learning are made jack of all trades but master of none.
These are further supported by the difference in learning ability. Some students tend to learn faster than their fellow mates. The students who don’t learn fast have no opportunity to table their areas of difficulty to the instructor or lecture as the case may be.
WHAT MUST WE DO TO EFFECT A CHANGE GOVERNMENT
The government as a body has the statutory role of providing education to its citizens. It must make sure that convention laws are made and not just made but also implemented to the latter.
The government, through the federal Ministry of Education should map-out suitable policies on education which seeks to redress the imbalance between the private and public tertiary institution of learning. Government should reorganize its staff strength at the federal Ministry of Education so that only needed officials are allowed to stay in order to hold strategic position.
Education all over the world is a capital-intensive project and requires huge sums of capital to finance. Funds realized from this delimitation would go a long way in financing education. More so, in other to raise funds for education, an education fund must need to be in place. These education funds will be contributed by all and sundry through the establishment, of an educational fund, from which scholarships and educational grants will be made available to deserving and students in need. By doing so, financially deprived students are not denied their rights to education.
THE STAKEHOLDERS
The stakeholders in the education sector must work tirelessly and relentlessly at improving the standard of education in Nigeria. The academicians, professors, lectures, instructors must know and be guided by the ethics of teaching as a profession and not just as a means to make a living. The interest of the student must be at hand before all other material and personally interest.
It is time the stakeholder must make constructive criticisms on education so that amendments are made. Professors must be able to profess their research and fact-findings so the government can use as a framework for its education policy.
The lecturers and teachers including instructors must show total and unreserved willingness and devotion to their duty.
PRIVATE SECTOR
Globally, government alone never funds education. The private sector has the dual mandate of meeting its social responsibility to its environments where it operates, and education is not an exception. The private sector must contribute its own quota to educational development projects, give scholarships or grants to deserving students who have proven to be intellectually sound and creative in return.
PARENTS AND GUADIANS
The parents or guardians must monitor the activities of their children or ward as the case may be. From time to time they should visit their children’s institution of leaning to inquire about their attendance at school and level of commitment to study.
They are to monitor the activities of their wards and if they discover any questionable or shady character, should report them to the appropriate authority. They are to advise their wards on the dangers of cultism and gangsterism, and above all, devote time to their wards.
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